Converted the communications table parent_id to an integer Amazingly, it works as a string, which is why it took a while to notice the problem.  Even more amazingly, this conversion works even for an existing database; it's smart enough to preserve the information by converting the strings to ints.
Converted the communications table parent_id to an integer
Amazingly, it works as a string, which is why it took a while to
notice the problem.  Even more amazingly, this conversion works
even for an existing database; it's smart enough to preserve the
information by converting the strings to ints.

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